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If you’re looking to get any kind of an idea of what to expect from this Sunday’s MuchMusic Video Awards, it’s probably best not to ask its co-hosts.

Kylie and Kendall Jenner, in a wide-ranging interview with the Star that was devoid of specifics and made up of short-sentence answers, said they are promising “just a lot of fun stuff.”

“We don’t want to think about it too much,” said 16-year-old Kylie. “If we overthink it, it will not end well. We’re just going to try to have fun with it.”

Kim Kardashian’s younger half-sisters, who have dabbled in modelling, fashion design and publishing when not busy promoting themselves and their family on Keeping Up with the Kardashians or Instagram, said this will be their first hosting gig.

“We want to keep it fun and light,” 18-year-old Kendall chimed in. “We just want to have fun and be ourselves.”

Moving on to other topics, the sisters were coy on whether their recently released book, Rebels: City of Indra — written with the help of Maya Sloan, whose name does not appear on the cover — will be followed by others, or even turned into a movie. The futuristic novel about two girls with superpowers who embark on a journey has not exactly reached sales of Harry Potter proportions, nor has it garnered many favourable reviews, but the sisters remain proud nonetheless.

“The fans seem to love it. That’s why we did it,” said Kylie. “(The characters’) names are Lex and Livia. I think we wanted to make Lex more like me and Livia more like Kendall, and they kind of evolved into their own characters.”

Is the book’s depiction of a world where the elites live in the sky and the poor live beneath the Earth’s surface a metaphor for how the girls see the world?

“I don’t think we took it that far,” said Kendall, after some contemplation. “I think that, we originally didn’t want to do something typical that you just heard anyone else would do. We just wanted to take it to the next level.”

In the lightning round of questions, the Jenners said big-sister Kim is doing “great” after her Italian wedding to Kanye West, with Kylie adding that she liked the Batman outfit worn to the event by Will Smith’s teenage son, Jaden, which attracted much attention at the time.

“I think that’s just him,” she said. “He just does whatever he wants, wears whatever he wants.”

And finally, back to the MMVAs. Are the sisters nervous?

“I feel like there’s always been a bit of nerves, but there’s a first time for everything, like why not? We’ll do our best,” Kendall said.

This leads to the inevitable question of Kendall’s slip-up at the Billboard Awards earlier this year, when she was supposed to introduce the band 5 Seconds of Summer, but began by introducing them as “One ...” seemingly unable to get the band One Direction off her mind. Kendall reportedly dated the group’s most famous member, Harry Styles. She finally got the band’s name right, telling the crowd “Guys, I’m the worst reader.” (That leads one to wonder how a self-proclaimed worst reader could write a book.)

“That’s in the past, not talking about that,” said a female voice on the other end of the phone when the Star asked about the Billboards — the Star had been told beforehand that the sisters would not be taking questions about the incident — but it’s unclear if the voice belonged to Kendall, Kylie, or their publicist.

Will there be any similar slip-ups at the MMVAs? Who knows. Just know this: the sisters are “super excited” to be there.

The awards air at 9 p.m. Sunday on MuchMusic.

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